Category: Cooking and Ingredients


  • Garlic Scapes

    Georgina Campbell writes about her discovery and love of a lesser-known seasonal vegetable. It’s fair to say that garlic scapes are a pretty new concept to most Irish cooks, but they came to everyone’s attention in a big way when they famously featured on Donal and Sofie Skehan’s wedding menu in June 2015 – when,…

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  • No Kidding

    As goat meat is in season, Georgina Campbell hopes the world’s most popular meat may soon be featuring on more Irish menus. The goat is the most widely used farm animal in the world for its milk, cheese and meat – yet, astonishingly, we hardly use it at all here, except for cheese. It really…

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  • Calling All Cooks!

    Dublin Cookery School has launched a new scholarship that gives the opportunity to learn cooking skills and pursue a career in food. Dublin Cookery School, Blackrock, fronted by acclaimed chef Lynda Booth, is offering a scholarship place on its prestigious three-month certificate course this September to one lucky winner. The course is the only type…

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  • Cookery Demo with Jordan Bourke

    Join Jordan on 3rd January at The Cookery School at Donnybrook Fair as he kicks off the New Year with delicious, good for you recipes from his new cookbook. After the sell out success of Jordan’s last three demonstrations, he will be back again to The Cookery School at Donnybrook Fair this January to kick…

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  • Retro Christmas Recipe Cards

    Introducing the new Georgina Campbell capsule collection of retro Christmas Recipe Cards! A celebration of traditional Christmas food, each of the five A5 size (148 x 210mm/5.8 x 8.3in) cards in the collection features a favourite dish on the front and its recipe on the back. Inside, a brief seasonal greeting in English and Irish…

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  • The Lettercollum Cookbook

    The Lettercollum Cookbook – Recipes from the Kitchen Project is a new cookbook launched this week, edited and published by Guild member Roz Crowley. The Lettercollum Kitchen Project, run by Karen Austin and Con McLoughlin, is a West Cork institution. For ten years it has been the jewel in the crown of Clonakilty; a bakery…

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  • Armagh Bramley Apples

    Georgina Campbell writes about one of Ireland’s much-loved, special food products, which has just been harvested at the end of last month – Armagh Bramley Apples. The special qualities of the Bramley’s Seedling have made it the most popular cooking apple in Britain and Ireland, and those grown in Northern Ireland’s ‘Orchard County’ are extra…

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  • New Season Comber Potatoes EU PGI

    By Georgina Campbell. Ireland’s answer to the famed Jersey Royal early potato from the Channel Islands, the New Season Comber Potatoes (or Comber Earlies as they are also known) are this island’s flagship potato and one of only a small handful of products here to have the right to use the blue and yellow EU…

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  • Cono Sur invites Ireland’s Food Bloggers to Submit an Original Recipe to Win a Trip for Two to Chile

    Cono Sur, Ireland’s premium Chilean wine brand, is launching a search to find the ultimate dish to match their Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc or Pinot Noir. The entrant with the most votes in Ireland will travel with a friend, compliments of Cono Sur, to compete in the Grand Finale held in Paris in November. Here…

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  • Sharon Hearne-Smith’s New Cookbook, No Bake Baking

    Guild member Sharon Hearne-Smith’s new cookbook, No Bake Baking, is about to hit the shelves and cause a bit of a stir in the world of baking. The no-bake approach is perfect for novices, cooking with kids or anyone who’s short on time, with fast and easy ideas for every occasion. In No-Bake Baking, Sharon…

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